I n the cities of the developing world, the urban poor often inhabit marginal land that has less commercial value but is the only available land where they can afford to live. This includes land that is poorly drained and floods frequently, or on steep hillsides that are prone to landslides. The benefits of living nearer sources of employment and urban services usually outweigh the disadvantage...

• The role played by the state as a land market regulator in urban areas with natural vulnerability to flooding; as a producer of urban land and housing; and as a builder of defenses against flooding. • Impacts on the land market of flooding and built defenses as well as access to urban land for different population sectors; land value increases and decreases in urban areas according to floodin...

Urban floods are linked to patterns of land use, specifically urban sprawl. Since the 1980s, government-led new districts are sweeping across China, which account for many of the floods events. Focuses of urbanization impact on floods are extending gradually from hydraulic channels, to imperviousness ratio, to imperviousness pattern in urban areas or urbanized basins. Thus, the paper aims to ex...

Undoubtedly, the flood is known as a natural disaster. But in practice, considered most terrible disaster terms of mortality and financial losses. In this regard, worrying trend increasing damage world recent decades. The increase population assets floodplain changes hydro systems destructive effects human activities have been major cause trend. chapter, due to importance phenomenon ZayandehRud...

Among various natural disasters floods make the largest impact in terms of number of casualties, people affected and property lost. Flood data during the past 30 years show that flood events that cause significant impacts have increased at a steady rate. Available data suggest that this increase could be attributed to increasing population and exposure, increasing property values located in vul...

Urban storm floods have become one of the major natural disasters endangering city safety, economic and social development as well as life stability of urban residents. Due to urgent requirements of improving emergency management capacity, this paper introduces the strong reciprocity theory into emergency management of urban extreme storm floods (UESF), and sets up an evolutionary game model of...

In this paper the catastrophic and extraordinary floods occurring in Barcelona County (Catalonia, NE Spain) are studied, in order to characterise the temporal evolution of extreme flash floods in that area and their main features. These events usually cause economical losses and major problems for undertaking daily activity in Barcelona city. This kind of floods is a very common feature in the ...

it is increasingly recognized that the land-use change, especially urbanization has influenced hydrological attributes intensely. but in most urban designs, flood prediction is considered through type of land use (residential, industrial, and so on) and density. however, experiences show that this method has not been very successful. as a result, the present study aims to investigate and explor...